It's been long enough since the Me Too Movement started that the backlash is in full force. This backlash is often found in conjunction with the backlash against diversity, and comes primarily from white males. They are figuring out, for instance, that we white females do not like to be associated with them. There are some comedians out there, and I will not name them, that are not doing women any favors. And in this politically incorrect climate, it has become okay (again? still?) to do such things as laugh about rape and complain about the attention women's issues are getting, thereby dismissing them as hyped up and irrelevant. How far we have NOT come.
This same angry bunch -- that is angry about us being angry -- usually combine their complaints with gripes about liberals, as you might expect. Recently, I heard this comment, which I paraphrase here: "I've never met an ageing hippie that wasn't stingy."
I've been chewing on this. Sure, I've run into some annoying ageing hippies. But I think I AM ONE. And here's what I think. Maybe someone else's "stingy" is my "poor." And maybe someone else's "stingy" is my "distrustful" and "disenchanted" because I've been disappointed so damn many times.
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